Logistics built an org chart nobody updates

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the process has 18 steps, 3 of which are "send an email". With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Anja, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Anja, the management assistant. Only Anja.

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 15 months old

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 5 other tools depend on it.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 426x longer than intended, 38% chance of becoming business critical, older than the department using it.